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William Caferro, "Petrarch's War: Florence and ...
In 1349 the City-Republic of Florence had just endured a horrific epidemic of bubonic plague, that contagion that became known as the Black Death...
56 min
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Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Glo...
In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.
68 min
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Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, "Rethinking...
Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...
66 min
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Paul J. Croce, "Young William James Thinking" (...
James’s mature thinking as a radical empiricist was formed through his experiences and intellectual curiosity as a young man...
61 min
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Darren Dochuk, "Anointed with Oil: How Christia...
Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...
48 min
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Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty T...
Her book explains what went right in China and how other developing countries could follow a similar approach to reform and institutional transition...
38 min
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Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princ...
"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.
57 min
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Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cow...
Barraclough writes the history of elite Mexican and Mexican-American cowboys – charros – and how charro culture served as a site of contested national identity in the mid twentieth century United States...
67 min
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Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other N...
Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any other ethnic group...
55 min
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Erik Sjöberg, "The Making of the Greek Genocide...
Sjöberg is interested in the violence and expulsion of ethnic Greeks from Anatolia before, during and especially after World War One...
71 min
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Envi...
Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...
30 min
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Sarah Eppler Janda, "Prairie Power: Student Act...
Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...
48 min
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Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory...
Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...
49 min
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Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concen...
Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...
60 min
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Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the...
Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...
63 min
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Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial an...
Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...
48 min
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P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, "Beyond...
"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...
80 min
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Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the ...
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power?
59 min
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Kristen Ghodsee, "Red Hangover: Legacies of Twe...
In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...
73 min
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Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stor...
A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...
61 min
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Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early ...
Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...
62 min
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Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, ...
Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s...
76 min
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Candace L. Bailey, "Charleston Belles Abroad: T...
Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...
53 min
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Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing B...
Fregulia examines the geographic movements of coffee beans through global trade as well as the social and cultural movements of coffee drinking from a medicine to an aid in religious ritual to an elite domestic drink to a public event in the coffee house...
44 min
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Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Cult...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min